originally posted by: Aural
Its quite silly really. A company trying to force beliefs on to other people is something it can not do. They give them a pay check so those people
can do whatever they want anyway with their money so they are enabling them to begin with. Only way a company can have beleifs is if it
discriminations against anyone outside their religion and does not hire anyone outside the religion which would be illegal. So why not allow for them
to do what they will anyway and just cover things for them despite beliefs to avoid the hassle for them?

Actually, small companies can. I don't remember the cut-off number, but small companies can hire by belief, etc.

Hobby Lobby is a fairly large corporation. They can not, as far as I know.

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Why is that allowed? You cant hire all white workers or all male workers without being charged. I suppose it makes sense if its like a small kosher
food company or amish furniture or something as thats a preference but did they explain why its okay to reject other religious or non religious from
being hired?

I will never, ever again use the word "moral" ---- it became one of the most over used and abused words in history during the GW Bush presidency. It
lost any meaning it ever had, as far as I'm concerned.

Atheists and theists frequently debate morality on several levels: what is the origin of morality, what are proper moral behaviors, how should
morality be taught, what is the nature of morality, etc. The terms ethics and morality are often used interchangeably and can mean the same in casual
conversation, but morality refers to moral standards or conduct while ethics refers to the formal study of such standards and conduct. For theists,
morality typically comes from gods and ethics is a function of theology; for atheists, morality is a natural feature of reality or human society and
ethics is a part of philosophy. atheism.about.com...

religious holidays and sundays have very little to do with morals..
and personally I believe that one can obtain morals in many ways..
and there is a difference between one who believes something is immoral because "God says so" and the person who believes it is wrong because
experience has shown them it causes great pain to another and therefore shouldn't be done.
one can cling to religious morals against homosexuality and the like all they want but if they have no empathy to recognize that what they are doing
is harming others
I think they are missing the boat!

all the more reason for women young and old married or single to refuse to have sex
unless of course they desire to have a child!
if the guys want to have sex bad enough let them abuse their bodies awhile for their sex!

all the more reason for women young and old married or single to refuse to have sex
unless of course they desire to have a child!
if the guys want to have sex bad enough let them abuse their bodies awhile for their sex!

What about the women who choose to have sex because they like it and don't view it as a form of abuse to their bodies???

Making babies isn't the only purpose of sex either. At least not from a modern perspective. I suppose if you're a puritan it might be, but not for
the rest of humanity though.

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